SICK

Yeah, I'm in a mood to read Ecclesiastes again.

Yeah. It's all performative. All of it.

And yet, they're so sincere in their performance.

'Vanity of vanities,' says the Preacher, 'vanity of vanities. All is vanity.'

It makes sense when you realize the average American is an authoritarian who, in their discomfort, wants revenge against EVERYBODY.

This is why you should not even bother complying with unjust law. In a state of injustice, the law will be modified to make whatever you're doing illegal.

For some reason the Democrats keep chasing a center they basically control rather than a disaffected end represented by no one.

No context:

When MLK was writing from a jail cell about the dangers of the white moderate who praises order over justice, Joe Biden was arguing against integration because he didn’t want his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle.” Any progress humanity has made has been despite men like biden

Exactly. We're not allowed to meaningfully criticize Israel not because Israel's in charge, but because the US needs to maintain the legitimacy of its local satrapy.

Again.

An interesting feature of 17th century England is the tail end of plate armour meeting the origin of the modern suit. You get guys in primordial yet familiar dress shirts with swords and full plate right at the hinge-point of european modernity

Okay. This is stuck in my brain and I can’t get off so, let’s be clear. MLK and Rosa Parks are the two most sanitized members of the civil rights movement despite their radicalism. Their principal crime and strategy was TRESPASSING. Biden just said MLK and Rosa Parks were violent

How a lot of liberals use 'the arc of history bends towards justice' elides that said arc must indeed be actively bent. Passively relying on a sense of historicism serves nothing but the status quo.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Welp, this is twice.

Authoritarianism is a curse not limited to the far right.